Oil-burner.



D. EJPEPPER & H. STRELOW.

on BURNER! APPLICATION FILED JULY 16, 1917 l;35%,71 6, Patented Jan. 8,1918.

INVENTCRefiJ- A TTORNE YS.

DAVID E. PEPPER AND HENRY STRELOW, OF VENICE, CALIFORNIA.

OIL-BURNER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 8, 1918.

Application filed J uly 16, 1917. Serial No. 180,809.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, DAVID E. PEPPER and HENRY S'rRELow, citizens of theUnited States, and residing at Venice, in the county of Los Angeles andState of California, have invented new and useful Improvements inOil-Burners, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in oil burners; and the objects ofour improvements are, to provide a gas generating box in a furnacehaving gas outlet openings in the path of the inrushing air; to providea heating pan below the gas generating box; to provide a gas deflectingbaffle or plate on the gas generating box projecting downwardly from thegas generating box into the path of the inrushing gas; to provide a gasdeflecting baflie within the heating pan projecting upwardly into thepath of the passing gas; to provide gas igniting and starting meansconnected to the gas heating pan; the invention consisting in theconstruction, combination and arrangement of devices hereafter morefully described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawing, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section throughour device.

Fig. 2 is a fragmental top view of the heating pan.

Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the fuel connection of our device.

Similar numbers refer throughout the papers.

In Fig. 1, 3 designates the gas heating pan, having an inclined front 4.a base plate 5 and the side plates 6. A deflecting batlle 7 is providedon the base plate crosswise to the heating pan for directing the passinggas upwardly. The baflle is spaced from the side plates 6 so as to allowfuel oil to pass sidewise from the baffle from the front to the rear orin the opposite direction, as indicated at 8. The gas generating box 9is disposed above the heating pan so as to heat fuel oilinjected intothe box for the purpose of generating gas. Gas escaping openings 10 areprovided in the front plate 11 of the box. The front plate is extendedbeyond the to similar parts bottom of the box forming an. atomizingbaflie 12 for the purpose of atomizing eventually from the boxdownwardly dripping fuel oil by the draft passing below the atomizingbaffle into the burner. An extension plate 13 is provided above theinclined front plate of the heating pan to direct the inpassing airclose past the gas escaping openings 10 in the gas generating box 9.

A fuel oil supply pipe 14 is provided with a fitting 15 allowing asupplying of fuel oil into the heating pan through the valve 16 forstarting the furnace.

After the fuel oil is fed into the heating pan and ignited, it naturallyheats the gas generating box 9. At this moment, a slight stream of fueloil is injected into the generating box also, through the operatingvalve 17, and this fuel oil is generated into gas in the heated box 9.

The generated gas escapes from the box through the openings 10 and isdrawn into the heating pan below the generating box by the inpassing airpassing the openings 10. as will easily be understoo Having succeeded ingenerating gas in the heated box 9 to such an amount as to warrant acontinuous stream of gas from the generating box, the priming supply isshut off by closing the priming valve 16, and the burner is then incondition to operate on gas only.

Having thus described our invention, we claim:

1. In an oil burner of the class described a heating pan having aninclined front plate, two side plates and a base plate; a deflectingbaflle provided on the base plate crosswise to the heating pan; and agas generating box disposed above the heating pan spaced from said baseand the inclined front plate forming a passage for the air draft andhaving gas escaping openings toward the front in the path of the airpassage.

2. In an oil burner of the class described in combination with a heatingpan. a gas generating box having inclosing plates in the front, therear, the two sides, the top and the bottom; the front plate beingprovided with gas escaping openings so as to compel the generated gas topass out of the box into the path of the inpassing air in such burner;set our hands at Los Angeles, California, the front plate being alsoprovided with an this 9th day of July. 1917. extension plate projectingdownwardly DAVID E. PEPPER. forming a deflecting baflie and atomizingHENRY STRELOW. 5 means between the'heating pan and the gas In presenceof generating box. HANS BRINCK,

In testimony whereof we have hereunto OTToH. KRUEGER.

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